They came to Savannah several months to protest ???. They stood around in front of a few churchs downtown while scores of police officers earning some good overtime surrounded them protecting them from the glances of a few mildly curious tourists and locals out walking their dogs.

They came to Savannah several months to protest ???. They stood around in front of a few churchs downtown while scores of police officers earning some good overtime surrounded them protecting them from the glances of a few mildly curious tourists and locals out walking their dogs.

The best revenge against them is to ignore them. Nothing else will hurt them as much as being considered quaint and irrelevant.

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"The basic plot is that Donna Speir and Hope Marie Carlton, the two undercover DEA agent Playboy Playmates from the last movie, are still running around in jungle shorts, cowboy boots and spaghetti strap T-shirts, firing their machine guns at drug smugglers, Filipino communist guerrillas, and corrupt federal agents while their two friends, Lisa London and Miss May 1984 Patty Duffek, lounge around the pool a lot and talk on speaker phones that look like fax machines."-Joe Bob on SAVAGE BEACH

They came to Savannah several months to protest ???. They stood around in front of a few churchs downtown while scores of police officers earning some good overtime surrounded them protecting them from the glances of a few mildly curious tourists and locals out walking their dogs.

The best revenge against them is to ignore them. Nothing else will hurt them as much as being considered quaint and irrelevant.

Several local groups tried to organize huge counter protests and make a media circus out of it - but it was a lovely Sunday morning in early spring so nobody was terribly interested.

I admit out of morbid curiosity I went downtown that morning to get a load of of the infamous protesters and their goofy signs. The police far outnumbered any protesters or counter protesters. The officers were not particularly on edge: they were for the most part standing around and talking and laughing with the few passersby. The biggest crowd was the kiddies wanting to pet the police horses.

I think the response they got (other than a few odd glances from tourists and locals what amounted to a collective shrug) was far more effective than any big counter protest (i.e. MEDIA ATTENTION), which is exactly what they want. According to the news they actually shut down their protest a few hours early because of the lack of interest.

They came to Savannah several months to protest ???. They stood around in front of a few churchs downtown while scores of police officers earning some good overtime surrounded them protecting them from the glances of a few mildly curious tourists and locals out walking their dogs.

The best revenge against them is to ignore them. Nothing else will hurt them as much as being considered quaint and irrelevant.

Ignoring them does nothing. They protest endlessly, fueled by their faith and their hate. They protest in the name of God all mighty. The fires of religious intolerance burn eternal.

They came to Savannah several months to protest ???. They stood around in front of a few churchs downtown while scores of police officers earning some good overtime surrounded them protecting them from the glances of a few mildly curious tourists and locals out walking their dogs.

The best revenge against them is to ignore them. Nothing else will hurt them as much as being considered quaint and irrelevant.

Ignoring them does nothing. They protest endlessly, fueled by their faith and their hate. They protest in the name of God all mighty. The fires of religious intolerance burn eternal.

As Raffine posted above, paying little attention to them caused them to cancel their attempted protest early. They want you to counterprotest and pay attention to them. I'm not sure why people are so easily goaded into giving them the only thing they're seeking---attention.

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"The basic plot is that Donna Speir and Hope Marie Carlton, the two undercover DEA agent Playboy Playmates from the last movie, are still running around in jungle shorts, cowboy boots and spaghetti strap T-shirts, firing their machine guns at drug smugglers, Filipino communist guerrillas, and corrupt federal agents while their two friends, Lisa London and Miss May 1984 Patty Duffek, lounge around the pool a lot and talk on speaker phones that look like fax machines."-Joe Bob on SAVAGE BEACH

As Raffine posted above, paying little attention to them caused them to cancel their attempted protest early. They want you to counterprotest and pay attention to them. I'm not sure why people are so easily goaded into giving them the only thing they're seeking---attention.

There's a theory floating around that the Westboro people are actually scam artists. The theory is that the church has no political or religious point of view, they are simply using inflammatory rhetoric to bait somebody into violating their rights, at which point they sue for profit.

While I think of it, here are a couple of clips from Theroux's doco's on the Westboro loons. Very fascinating watch if you can find the whole thing [these are just short clips from the two episodes he did on them]

They came to Savannah several months to protest ???. They stood around in front of a few churchs downtown while scores of police officers earning some good overtime surrounded them protecting them from the glances of a few mildly curious tourists and locals out walking their dogs.

The best revenge against them is to ignore them. Nothing else will hurt them as much as being considered quaint and irrelevant.